Faculty Publications, Conference Papers and Invited Talks
How do people acquire languages beyond their first? What processes and factors impact their abilities to read, write, comprehend, and speak additional languages? What roles do nondominant languages play in societies/cultures around the world?
Key aspects of this research include literacy development in multiple languages, social dimensions of learning a second language (context, identity, culture), instruction and learning of second languages (classroom-based research, program evaluation, impact of instruction on learning and cognitive aspects of learning a second language (processing, memory).
Faculty Publications
Uju Anya
Associate Professor of Second Language Acquisition; Director of the Language Program Administration Certificate Program
The AfroMetaverse online virtual reality platform as Black placemaking for racial justice in multilingual education
Anya, U., & Airemionkhale, E. (2025). The AfroMetaverse online virtual reality platform as Black placemaking for racial justice in multilingual education. Racial Justice in Multilingual Education, 1(1), 1-17.
Sébastien Dubreil
Teaching Professor of Global French Studies, Second Language Acquisition and Technology-Enhanced Learning
Apprentissages, création et jeu(x) en cours de FLE: Approches et enjeux
Felipe Gómez
Teaching Professor of Hispanic Studies
The Latin American Comics Archive (LACA): An Online Platform Housing Digitized Spanish-language Comics as a Tool to Enhance Literacy, Research, and Teaching through Scholar/Student Collaboration
Rémi A. van Compernolle
Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition and Global French Studies; Associate Department Head
Technology, mediation, and the intersection of L2 pragmatics research, teaching, and assessment
Seth Wiener
Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition and Chinese Studies; Director of Graduate Studies
The Art of Wrangling: Working with Web-based Visual World Paradigm Eye-tracking Data in Language Research
Bonnie Youngs
Teaching Professor of Global French Studies; Director of M.A. in Applied Linguistics & Second Language Acquisition programs
Item-level learning analytics: Ensuring quality in an online French course
Youngs, B. L. (2021). Item-level learning analytics: Ensuring quality in an online French course. Language Learning & Technology, 25(1), 73–91.
Conference Papers
Gómez, Felipe. (2024, June). LACA: (Un) Archivo del Cómic Latinoamericano [Paper presentation]. Latin American Archives: Engaging Physical and Digital Archival Sites for Research on Latin American Cultural Production, Bogotá, Colombia.
Qin, T. S., & van Compernolle, R. A. (2021, August). Diagnosing responsiveness to instruction through computerized dynamic assessment: The case of L2 pragmatic comprehension [Paper presentation]. Association International de Linguistique Appliquée/International Association of Applied Linguistics. Online.
Bramlett, A., Tu, C.-Y., Liu, X., & Wiener, S. (2023, March). [Paper presentation]. 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Pittsburgh, PA.
Loiseau, M., Magnat, E., Dubreil, S., Simonnet, E., & Lavoué, E. (2025, April). A Collaborative Vocabulary Notebook as a Complementary Tool to Language Courses at the University Level. [Paper presentation]. 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education. Porto, Portugal.
Invited Talks
Gómez, Felipe. (2025, May).Archiving Resistance: Feminist, Decolonial, and Racial Justice Visions in Latin American Comics [Invited talk]. Spring Research Seminar: Archives, Language, and Translation. York University, Toronto, Canada.
van Compernolle, R. A. (2022, September). Technology, mediation, and the intersection of L2 pragmatics research, teaching, and assessment [Plenary]. The 2022 Pragmatics and Language Learning Conference. Online.
Dubreil, S. (2023, November). Games and Game Design in the L2 Classroom: Opportunities and Challenges for Research [Invited lecture]. The Ph.D. Public Lecture Series. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.